Gerhard Meyer-Hentschel

Gerhard Meyer-Hentschel (＊ 1911 † 2005)

Gerhard Meyer-Hentschel (born September 9, 1911 in Bernburg ; † October 14, 2005 in Andernach ) was a German lawyer who presided over the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1961 to 1976 .

Life

Meyer-Hentschel was born in 1911 in Bernburg, Anhalt, in a Catholic family of civil servants. This moved to Andernach in 1917. He attended the local collegiate high school, where he graduated from high school in 1930. Meyer-Hentschel then began studying law, which took him to the universities in Bonn, Geneva, Berlin and Cologne. In 1935 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. From 1938 Meyer-Hentschel worked as an assistant judge at the Koblenz district court. In 1939 he was called up for military service, which ended for him in French captivity at the end of the war. The 1968 Brown Book lists him as judge-martial of the 409th division of the Wehrmacht. Further details are not given. As a prisoner of war, Meyer-Hentschel was from May 1946 to Easter 1947 in the so-called barbed wire seminar of Chartres , which was headed by Abbé Franz Stock between 1945 and 1947 .
In 1947 Meyer-Hentschel was hired as a consultant in the justice ministry of the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1949 he moved to the legislative department of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior for some time. At the age of just forty, in 1951 he was offered the position of Senate President at the state administrative court that was being established. In 1957 Meyer-Hentschel was appointed vice-president of the Koblenz authority, which has now been renamed the Higher Administrative Court, and in 1961 he was appointed President of the Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate. This was accompanied by the presidency of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate. Meyer-Hentschel carried out these two offices until his retirement in 1976. During his tenure, he played a key role in the development and further development of the administrative court code. In addition, he worked as a lecturer and head of studies at the Administration and Business Academy of Rhineland-Palatinate and had been teaching law at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer since the mid-1950s . He was also chairman of the Federal Association of German Administrative and Business Academies from 1975 to.

Gerhard Meyer-Hentschel died at the age of 94 in Andernach.

Web links

• Entry on Gerhard Meyer-Hentschel in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Press release 55/2005 of the Ministry of Justice of Rhineland-Palatinate

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chartres 1945, Herder-Verlag, ISBN 978-3451211980 , p. 310